Is producing something that you want to do more of?

Not so much, but it's more like, if it's the way that I can get a project made then great because there comes a point when you're a woman in the industry and then being an ethnic woman in the industry, you realize that you can sit around and complain because that's the easiest thing to do or you can get off your butt and actually make some things happen and not wait around for studios to come to you with things. So, in that sense, yes, but the actual act of producing now.

Why is that?

You know what, there is too much to do for me. I just want to concentrate on my acting. I'm like, 'Tell those trucks what?' I just love my craft so much that I love going head first into it and into the whole experience and not have to worry about anything else.

So you're not a great organizer is what you're saying?

I didn't say that [Laughs]. But you know what, I'm not actually a great organizer, but I do get things done. I definitely do get things done.

With 'Live,' is there a studio attached to it yet?

No, we're doing the indie circuit run and we just finished that actually. So we're going to do the whole film festival thing and stuff like that.

Who's starring in the film?

Me. No. We got me and David Krumholtz from 'Numbers.' He's in it as well and Andre Brauer is in it, and we've got some great improv actors in it as well because it's shot as a documentary, and Bill Guttentag who's a two time Oscar winning documentarian who directed it and wrote it. So it's got a very kind of realistic quality to it.

Is it satire or serious? What's the tone of it?

There is a satirical element to it, absolutely.

How is Mark as an action director compared to Rodriguez and Singleton?

Oh my God, they're all kind of similar especially in the sense that they're all little boys which is really cool to see. It's fun to see these grown men become little boys and play around. But Mark, he and I are the same. We're so similar. He would say something and I would just get it. He barely wouldn't come up to me and I would get it. We were just so on the same wavelength. I was just there from day one.

Did you ever get the feeling that he was ever over his head at times?

No, no, not at all. Mark makes you very, very comfortable as far as him being able to handle it. He handles things with ease. He's got it. I'm good too at not doubting my director. Once I'm in I'm in. I'm like that because it would make things so much more complicated otherwise. Even if you don't agree with your director I don't doubt my director. I almost kind of relinquish power when I get there to some degree because you just go, 'This is your thing. I'm a part of it. I'm just a part of your whole vision.' So in a sense I'm there for them, and then I don't get blamed when the movie sucks. I'm like, 'Hey! You wanted it that way.' No.

What was the crab ultimately on the menu?

I don't know. We never found out and that's the beauty of it, and then one time in Melbourne we thought about finding out, but decided it was more fun to not find out and always be Peaky Toe Crab buddies.

Is there anything that you're dying to get or give someone for Christmas, for the holidays?

To get or give someone? Right now a coat. I'm cold. I haven't thought about it. What about warm socks, like a whole box of them because I don't buy those myself.

You're the first girl in ages to ask for socks.

Yeah, but like a huge box of them though. I'll buy one pair at a time.